Meat-hanger.



No. 786;@24. ATNLD 1995,

' M, l". BURT,

MEAT HANGER APPLICATION um) 1330.1, 1904.

TO. "S. Eatented April i905.

il'HLTON P. BURT, O KANSAS CITY, 'MSSGURL ASSIGiTlGR i() SCHWAB-ZS- JHLD et SULZBERGER COMPANY, GF KANSAS CTY, YnNSS, t. i PORATLGN GF NEW YORK.

SEECIFICATON' forming part 01E Letters Patent No. 785,62, dated April 4t, .1.965.

Application filed December 1,1904. Serial No. 235,075.

Tf {"Zf' "fd/0711 'ff 1H/U (10W/@877W corresponding portions of the body. Hooks Be it known that l, MILTON P. BUiri, a citior prongs B H (similar to prongs En) are zen of the United States, residing at Kansas formed thereon, the outer ends of Virongs B', 50 City, in the county of Jackson and State of however, being inclined inwardly to aslightly Missouri, have invented certain new and usegreater extent than prongs A.

ful improvements in Meat-Hangers, of which Wire 'C is of the greatest length, and the the following is a specilication, hoolis or prongs C tl thereof, forined in a My present invention pertains to inprovemanner similar to prongs and B, are iii- 55 ineiits in meat-hangers, the construction and clined inwardly or converge to a greater e;-;- advantages of which will be hereinafter set tent than said prongs.

forth, reference being had to the annexed As will be seen upo'i reference to Fig. 255, drawings, wherein the ends of the prongs stand in alinenient, and

Figurelisaperspective View of the hanger; inasmuch as the upward inclination of each 6C Fig. Q, an end view, and Fig. 3 a front face prong is the saine theirpointsotI junction with I5 view. the wire arnis also stand in alinenient.

The objectof the presentinvention is to prolVhen in use, the prongs are forced into a duce a simple and efficient meat-hanger which piece of bacon, and by reason of their upis niore especially adapted to suspend bacon ward inclination the ineat is held securely f and to hold the side in an extended and iiatthereon. Owing to the fact that the ends or 2O tened condition. The hanger not only holds points of the prongs are closer together than the side in this condition, but is so constructthe roots or bodies thereof, the bacon will be ed that it is retained thereon in such inanner distended or stretched to a slight degree as that there is no tendency for the bacon to bethe hooks are passed through the saine. 70 come disengaged therefrom. it is of course conceivable that a greater or The hanger in the embodiment shown is less nuinber of wires than those shown inay composed of three pieces of wire A, B, and be employed in constructing the hanger.

(l, twisted together at their mid-length, forrnrihree wires with six prongs are found in pracing a body portion D, The body is bent tice, however, to foi-rn a hanger of the proper 75 downwardly at each side of its center, as is -proportions for the usual or average side of most clearly shown in Fig. 3, the parts standoacon.

ing at an angle of approximately ninety de Having thus described iny invention, what giees to each other, and thus affording a bearl elaiin is ing-point E for a suspending hook, rod, or l. A meat-hanger, comprising a series of SO other device upon which the hanger may be wires of dilferent lengths twisted together at placed. their mid-length forn'iing body portion, said Vifire A is the shortest of the three, and its body being likewise bent at its mid-length so ainis are bent down out of line with the body that the diverging portions thereof stand at at such an angle as to bring theni in substaiian angle of approximately ninety degrees to 8 tial parallelism. The ends of the arins are each other, the arins oi uhe short wire extendsharpened and bent outwardly and upwardly ing downwardly from said body iiiortion, the to a slight exten t, thereby forming a pair of arins of the longer wire (or wirres) being given hooks or prongs A' A. The ends of the hooks a greater spread, and the ends of all the wires or prongs are preferably given a slight inclibeing bent outwardlyand 'pwardly to a slight L nation toward each other, as will be seen upon extent and inclined inwa j toward the body reference to Fig. 3. of the hanger, substantiahy as described.

lire B is of intermediate length, its arnis I 2. A meat-hanger, conrirising a series of standing in approximate alineinent with the l wires of diiierent lengths secured together at SubsmUbin/ily thai 1- mid-10u 2th, the ends of the Qh testimony wbeleoflhzwe sg'md my mme www@ upon @zich Side of the seemed Hormon to tms Specl'catlou m the presnce 011i uw subextmuing downwardly tholoflom and nzwng scrfibing' witnesses.

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of the center of the hzms'z'cr converging; toi AG B MOQG, ward yhos upon the www5-atc sido., l Jomu. L. v'GCABxc. 

